The considerations when procuring cloud services are still in beta version and the Cabinet Office wants feedback.

"This guidance is intended to help organisations consider the security features of cloud services they wish to use. It is the first of a number of guidance documents for the public sector relating to the use of cloud services to process official information,” said the Cabinet Office.

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“It is for the consumer of the service to decide which of the security principles are important to them in the context of how they expect to use the service,” the document states.

“Some service providers will be able to offer higher levels of confidence in how they implement the different security principles. Consumers will need to decide how much, if any, assurance they require in the different security principles which matter to them.”

The Cabinet Office has a cloud-first mandate to cut costs related to IT procurement. With security a big fear for many organisations the Cloud Service Security Principles document is a step towards supporting public sector organisations moving to the cloud, often for the first time.

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